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20 years ago – 1992 “Stressed” is “desserts” spelled backwards. The interesting comment from a former male patient was used by a clinical psychologist, Dr. Elizabeth Michas, to introduce her presentation, “Starving or Stuffing,” a part of a local hospital’s “Coping in the 90s” series. 10 years ago – 2002 Max Carroll, a Crestview doctor, penned a few words a couple of weeks after 9-11. His friend Bonnie J. Barnhill, a country music singer from Milligan, made it a song, titled “America… Read More »

20 years ago – 1992 A sergeant who stopped flying for several days during the Persian Gulf War because of “crazy” missions said he was being forced to retire for allegedly causing a morale problem in the 16th Special Operations Squadron. 10 years ago – 2002 A 43-year-old man wanted for the murder of a woman in northeastern Georgia earlier in the year was arrested while working with a construction crew at the site of the conference center on Okaloosa Island.

20 years ago – 1992 Vandals broke into the Fort Walton Beach Municipal Golf Course and caused more than $5,000 in damage to the grounds and equipment. 10 years ago – 2002 During a kickoff for a fund-raising campaign to build a 10,000-square-foot education annex at the Air Force Armament Museum, Superintendent of Schools Don Gaetz announced there was a proposal on the table to open a high school-level Military Flight School at the new facility. Old Time Pottery, a Nashville-based home… Read More »

20 years ago – 1992 The owner of a handgun used in the Sept. 5 accidental shooting death of a Bluewater Bay boy was charged with culpable negligence and carrying a concealed weapon. 10 years ago – 2002 The Salvation Army buildings on Beal Parkway that housed kitchen and lodge operations were closed permanently. Their tenants, both human and vermin, had been evicted.

Northwest Florida Daily News 15 Sep 1994 1A Corpse found off I-10 By ALAINE MESSINA Daily News Staff Writer HOLT _ An inmate working with a road crew here Wednesday found a decomposed body in a wooded area off Interstate 10. “It’s just about down to skeletal remains,” said Okaloosa County sheriff’s spokesman Rick Hord. “At this point, we don’t know who it is or how they died.” Neither could investigators be sure of the… Read More »

20 years ago – 1992 Fifteen years before, the Legislature envisioned the “tourism development tax” as a way to allow counties to market their communities’ attributes and to eventually reduce the state’s financial burden to entice big-spending visitors. It hadn’t quite worked out that way. Over the years, the state has had to cut its tourism-advertising budget, but the 37 counties that collect the so-called “bed tax” hadn’t picked up the slack. 10 years ago – 2002 Rough surf and rip currents… Read More »

20 years ago – 1992 A school official and a city police officer described the Crestview High School campus as “quiet and peaceful,” a day after separate fights erupted involving seven black and five white students. 10 years ago – 2002 The Muscogee Nation took its 22-year search for federal recognition on the road, attending local county commission meetings seeking support.

20 years ago – 1992 With no word yet on what could have killed eight dogs earlier in the year, Dr. Scott Harris, a Bluewater Bay veterinarian said he would prepare a questionnaire for owners in hopes of finding a clue. Tests of tissue samples conducted at the University of Florida using an electron microscope showed that damage to two of the dogs’ internal organs were similar. But pathologists there still did not know what caused it. 10 years ago –… Read More »

20 years ago – 1992 The Emerald Coast Hash House Harriers, or ECH3 for short, were a relatively new group, formed April 8, 1990, and were also known as beer drinkers with a running problem. 10 years ago – 2002 Area residents were preparing as Tropical Storm Hanna moved slowly toward land. Okaloosa County commissioners tentatively agreed to contribute up to $250,000 to help repair Hill Avenue in Fort Walton Beach, which had had county and city officials at odds… Read More »

20 years ago – 1992 Crestview Manufacturing, producer of children’s sleepwear for J.C. Penny’s, Sears and other major retailers, was closing. It was located in Niceville on State Road 85. About 175 employees were losing their jobs. 10 years ago – 2002 The mystery of a cruise ship anchored in Rocky Bayou had been solved. The Stardancer Casino Cruise ship El Dorado moored in the bayou en route to New Orleans to wait out the weather. The captain decided to anchor there… Read More »

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